[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage few minutes, you are likely to waste 24 hours no matter how many times it’s given to you!

Come back with me, Aria. Be with me.

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.